Bible: Acts 26:12-18

26:12 “While doing this very thing,1 as I was going2toDamascuswithauthorityandcomplete power3from the chief priests,26:13about noonalongthe road, Your Majesty,4I sawa lightfrom heaven,5brighterthanthe sun, shining everywhere around6meandthose travelingwithme.26:14Whenwehadallfallento the ground, I hearda voicesayingtomein Aramaic,7 ‘Saul, Saul, whyare you persecutingme? Youare hurting yourself8 by kickingagainstthe goads.’926:15SoIsaid, ‘Whoare you, Lord?’ Andthe Lordreplied,10 ‘IamJesuswhomyouare persecuting.26:16Butget upandstandonyourfeet, forI have appearedto youfor this reason, to designateyouin advance11 as a servantandwitness12to the things13 you have seen14and to the things in which I will appearto you.26:17I will rescue15youfromyour own people16andfromthe Gentiles, towhom17Iam sendingyou26:18to opentheireyesso that they turn18fromdarknesstolightandfrom the power19of SatantoGod, so that theymay receiveforgivenessof sinsanda share20amongthose who are sanctifiedby faithinme.’